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NITE STATES PAFFEN LAURENCE HAMMOND, OF SPANGLER, PENNSYLVANIA TABLE Application filed August 13, 1929. 'Seria1 No.38 5,51 1.

This invention has for its object the provision of a table which will be strong and durable, attractive in appearance and thevsupporting area or top of which may be easily extended at will. The invention seeksto provide a table of simple construction in which the leaves may be easily extended and when extended will be firmly supported and which when not extended for use will be out of the way and will not detract from the appearance the means for supporting the leaves in ex tended position,

Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of a larger table embodying the invention, and

Fig. 6 is a side elevation, partly broken 2 "away, of the table shown in Fig. 5.

The supporting structure includes relatively stationary legs 1 arranged in rectangular relation and connected at their upper ends and near their lower ends by rails 2, a fixed top 3 being secured u on the upper rails and n the upper ends of sai legs, and a lower plate 4 being secured upon the lower rails and to the legs adjacent the lower ends thereof.

n This arrangement provides a very strong and durable structure which will be simple and inexpensive. At the ends of the several rails are secured blocks 5 on each side of the supporting structure which define a recess, as 6, in which may be received a short rail or bar 7 which is hinged at one end to one of said blocks 5 andat its, free end is secured to a movable leg 8, as shown. The lower decki or supporting plate 4 vhas its edges projecting beyond the lower rails 2 and provided with notches 9 in which the respective legs 8 be understood upon reference to Figs. 2 and 3, so that the legs will be out of the way and will not detract from the appearance ofthe table.

The top 3 is arranged symmetrically upon thesupporting frame and projects at each side beyond the side of the frame. To each side edge of the top, there is secured a leaf 10 by hinges 11 which leaf when not in use will depend from the top at the side of the frame,

the several leaves when not in use forming an -3 enclosure for the upper part of the structure.

To one end of each leaf 10 is hinged a corner leaf '12 which when the leaves are raised for use willbe swung upwardly andwill aline with the immediately adjacentleaf, as will be understood upon reference to Figs. 1 and 3. Each leaf 10 is provided in the end remote from the leaf 12 which is hinged thereto with a longitudinal recess or channel 13 in its under side which is bridged by a keeper plate 14 and'in which is slidably mounted a latch 15 which is adapted to enter a corresponding groove or recess in the under side of the meeting leaf 12, as shown in Fig. i, and thereby hold the corner leaf raised flush with the main side leaves, thelatch being" provided with a handle 16 of any convenient form at its inner end. When theleaves are not in use, the latch will be withdrawn and will be housed between theleaf and the sup porting frame. When the leaves are not in. use, the cornerleaf 12 is folded against the inner side of the leaf to whichit is hinged so as'to lie between said leaf and the sup portingstructure, as shown clearly in "Fig. '8. The structure shown and described'pro vides a table, thevcapacity of 'which can be practically doubled in a very short time if circumstances require the use of a larger table top or supporting surface thanis provided by the normal arrangement. When the leaves are to beused, it is necessary merely to swing the leaves successively outwardly and upwardly and pull the relatively movable legs 8 out into-the supporting position shown in Fig. 3 as the leaves are successively raised' The corner leaves will automatically dropinto a pendent position relative to the side leaves as the side leaves are successively swung up so that the'cornerlea'ves will not March 29, 1932.

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